US Patent Issued to GOODRICH LIGHTING SYSTEMS on Dec. 23 for "Aircraft overhead passenger service unit, aircraft, and method of illuminating a passenger cabin of an aircraft" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,230, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to GOODRICH LIGHTING SYSTEMS GMBH & Co. KG (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Aircraft overhead passenger service unit, aircraft, and method of illuminating a passenger cabin of an aircraft" was invented by Carsten Pawliczek (Lippstadt, Germany), Andre Hessling-von Heimendahl (Koblenz, Germany) and Bjorn Schallenberg (Geseke, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft overhead passenger service unit, which is configured to be mounted in a passenger cabin of an aircraft above a passenger seating space, comprises a visual sign structure extending downward from the aircraft overhead passenger service uni...